issue 04, december 2008

Scientists, do it like Al Gore

Pietro Greco

Human health has currently to face a growing series of global issues. From the spread of HIV/AIDS to a fresh outbreak of tuberculosis, increasingly ...

Public participation and rural management of Brazilian waters: an alternative to the deficit model

Alessandro Luís Piolli, Maria Conceição da Costa

The knowledge deficit model with regard to the public has been severely criticized in the sociology of the public perception of science. However, when ...

Popularization of Science in Brazil: getting onto the public agenda, but how?

Márcia Tait Lima, Ednalva Felix das Neves, Renato Dagnino

The importance the Brazilian government has given in the last few years to the dissemination of science points out the necessity of a more discerning ...

Changes in publication statistics when electronic submission was introduced in an international applied science journal

Howard J. Swatland

In a refereed journal in the food and agriculture sector, papers were tracked over a five-year period during the introduction of electronic submissions. ...

Trained to interact: echoes from the Workshop Sul-Americano de Mediação em Museus e Centros de Ciência

Luisa Massarani, Paola Rodari, Matteo Merzagora

The initiatives focusing the professional development of explainers are multiplying around the world, building an informal network of researchers, museums ...

Lynn Uyen Tran The professionalization of educators in science museums and centers

Fatima Brito Experimenting mediation: a constant challenge

Concepción Ruiz Ruiz-Funes Mediation within science centres and museums. The guides of Universum, México

Silvania Sousa do Nascimento The human body on Exhibit: promoting socio-cultural mediations in a science museum

Andrea Motto Peer learning: a strategy for practical explainer training

Daina Leyton, Cibele Lucena, Joana Zatz Mussi The “Learning in order to Teach” project and mediation in museums using Brazilian sign language (Libras)

Sebastian Martin, Modesto Tamez Explainers – New energy for the museum

How-to establish PCST. Two handbooks on science communication

Alessandro Delfanti

M. Bucchi and B. Trench (eds.), Handbook of Public Communication of Science and Technology, Routledge (2008).
D. Cheng, M. Claessens, T. Gascoigne, J. Metcalfe, B. Schiele and S. Shi (eds.), Communicating Science in Social Contexts: New models, new practices, Springer (2008).